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An estimated 20 million Americans have thyroid disorders, but more than half don’t know it. Find out why thyroid problems are so often mis-diagnosed, what really causes them, and how to heal them naturally.

Research suggests that healing your gut may be the single most important thing you can do to improve your health. In this eBook, you’ll learn how to optimize your gut health—and by extension, your overall health—with simple diet and lifestyle changes.

What is a low carb diet, really? When can a low carb diet be beneficial? Should everyone follow a low carb diet? Or, can a low carb diet ruin your health? After reading this eBook, you’ll be able to understand the many factors that play into how a person handles a low carbohydrate diet, and whether or not their health will improve on such a plan.

Are common additives to food and supplements like soy lecithin, carrageenan, xanthum gum, and magnesium stearate harmful–or harmless? Read this eBook to find out which ingredients you should be concerned about, and which are safe.

Is sugar “toxic” in any amount—even in natural sweeteners? Are artificial sweeteners safe? What about stevia and xylitol? Cut through the confusion and hype and find out which sweeteners are safe for you and your family.

The Paleo diet has the potential to dramatically improve your health—but the transition doesn’t always go smoothly. In this eBook, you’ll learn the three biggest obstacles to Paleo success, and how to overcome them.

What do memory loss, depression, anxiety, fatigue, nerve pain, and infertility have in common? They can all be caused by B12 deficiency. Find out why B12 deficiency is more common than most doctors think, how to know if you’re deficient, and what to do about it.

Does eating cholesterol and saturated fat really cause heart disease? Are statin drugs as effective as we’re told? Find out what the latest research says in this eBook, and learn how to prevent and treat heart disease naturally.

Important Information for Gmail Users

Hi everyone. I learned today that Google is adding some new features to their email service and they’ll be automatically filtering your email messages for you. They’ll be categorizing any emails I send as “Promotions” and automatically make them skip your inbox. This means that unless you change your settings in Gmail, you won’t be seeing any of the updates I send on a weekly basis.

You’ll be missing new articles, practice updates, information about my upcoming book launch, contests, and more. No bueno for my readers with Gmail who want to stay updated on what’s going on with all the changes coming to my site in the next few months!

Fortunately, there’s a way to prevent this from happening. I’ve found two informative websites that will help you change your settings so that you’ll still be able to receive emails from me. This website explains how to turn off all tabs and leave Gmail the way it was before the changes happened. You may want to do this if you receive a lot of updates from businesses or blogs that you don’t want to miss, but don’t feel like individually addressing each email address.

Another option is explained on this website if you just want to make sure emails from me or my team go straight to your inbox. There are helpful screenshots on this site, but I’ll customize their list of steps so that you can easily make the necessary changes to ensure you receive emails that I send.

Step 1: Go to the Promotions Tab.

Step 2: Find an Email from “Chris Kresser” in your inbox. You can do Control + F (or Command + F on Macs) to make scanning your inbox faster and easier.

Step 3: Drag and drop that email into your “Primary” Inbox. Then, you’ll get an alert saying, “This conversation has been moved to “Primary.” Do this for future messages from [email protected]?” Click “yes” to save your preferences

It’s that easy! I hope my readers using Gmail will make these changes, since I’ve got a lot of great new content coming in the next few months and I wouldn’t want anyone to miss it.

Post any questions that you have below so we can crowd source answers for you.

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Carie- I haven’t noticed anything different on my Windows phone. Everything that I didn’t already have filtered into a different folder is still just going to one inbox place. Not sure if it would be different on other kinds of phones, though.

Great article, Chris. I like the new gmail tabs, but I couldn’t figure out how to prevent your messages from going into Promotions. Hopefully if enough of us move your messages from Promotions into Primary, google will stop categorizing your messages as Promotion by default.

As soon as I saw the tabs, I deleted them. I have between 10 and 30 messages a day and I like to see them as they appear. Pesky advertisements and unwelcome spam goes right into the spam folder. I usually go along with upgrades, but not this one.

You can also right click on the e-mail in question. This will invoke a small drop down menu. Click “Primary” & that’s that. All future mailings from that source will be sent to the “Primary” folder. Really easy. Thanks for all the work you’re doing.

I went the ‘I-hate-change’ route and manually disabled all the filters so that everything rolls into my inbox with no separation. This may not work for people who receive large volumes of email, but it works for me!

I have done it another way. Open one of your emails. Go to the “More” pull down box. Select “Filter Messages Like These”. A search box comes up with your email address and I have selections. I skip the Inbox, apply the label (I originally put you on the “Food” label) “Never send it to Spam” “Always mark it as important”. I use the filters a lot. They work well.

I understand your concern, Chris, but for me, the new tabs actually make it MORE likely I will read your content, as it helps me prioritize incoming news and articles and makes sorting through emails less overwhelming. Unlike a SPAM filter, the messages do NOT become hidden from view, but instead, are neatly filed in a different area, easily accessed at any time. (I will NOT “be missing” your emails.) So I am much less likely to delete everything that seems to be crowding up my inbox on a busy day–you know that “I just can’t be bothered with this right now” feeling. With the new multi-inbox system, I know they’re set aside for me already in a place I can read through at my leisure.

I agree with Becky. This is much better now. As someone who gets between 150 – 300 emails each day having them split up like this allows me to more carefully go through them because my primary Inbox isn’t overflowing causing stress that makes me delete them all. Your message seems to make it sound like they’ll be filtered into the ether but in reality they’re still there. I know you already replied to this and I don’t expect another reply. I understand your original reply but I did want to second the vote for this helping me read more of your emails. On a busy stressful day anything that doesn’t HAVE to get read finds its way to the trash can.